Recently ran across this article geared towards young engineers. The title, as well as the article, gives advice: “Don’t call yourself a programmer“.

Here is a snippet of the intro:

If there was one course I could add to every engineering education, it wouldn’t involve compilers or gates or time complexity.  It would be Realities Of Your Industry 101, because we don’t teach them and this results in lots of unnecessary pain and suffering.  This post aspires to be README.txt for your career as a young engineer.  The goal is to make you happy, by filling in the gaps in your education regarding how the “real world” actually works.  It took me about ten years and a lot of suffering to figure out some of this, starting from “fairly bright engineer with low self-confidence and zero practical knowledge of business.”  I wouldn’t trust this as the definitive guide, but hopefully it will provide value over what your college Career Center isn’t telling you.

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The link to the gang’s forum, as always is:

http://www.steventrevino.net/yabb/

Love,
Steven

Fellow Owners,

With NFL training camps around the corner, the fantasy season can’t be too far behind. With this in mind, Steve and I have created the leagues for next year and have prepared something to guide you through next season.

Here is a list of both leagues and their draft type:

Auction Draft League (The Gang’s League 1):

• David U
• Michael F
• Max D
• Andrew Fo (League Manager)
• Steven T
• T
• Nick S
• David W
• Corey E
• T-Rav

Standard Draft League (The Gang’s League 2) :

• Nick G
• John Fo
• Matt D
• Brad D
• Nate L
• Lauren B
• Megan W
• Sticky R
• Kurt M (League Manager)
• Bob Exline

The Essentials a.k.a Things You Have to Know/Do

1) CHECK If YOUR DRAFT DATE WORKS!

Andrew’s auction league [TGL1] drafts Aug 10 @ 7:00 pm ET (6:00 CST).
Kurt’s draft league [TGL 2] drafts TBD Aug 17 @ 7:30 pm ET (6:30 CST).

Check your schedule, ask off from work, whatever, but get off for this date, as this is something we can’t do for you. If these dates irrevocably conflict with your schedule, tell me or Steve ASAP.  I can not overstate how important it is for you to clear this date or tell us quickly so we can find a better one early on.

2) Make sure you have computer access with a decent internet connection on this day.  This may seem basic, but inevitably there is someone who tells us last minute that they won’t have a computer on this date.  Find a computer or talk to Steve or I ASAP so we can plan on finding you one.

3) Make sure your computer can run the draft software.  Check your computer here, regardless of it worked last year.  Browsers and systems change and the check only takes a couple minutes.  If it doesn’t work, once again, get with me or Steve as soon as you can and we can try to fix the problem.

OK, those are the must-do’s by draft day.  Check on those things quickly.

Highly Suggested Things To Do

1) Participate in a mock draft at ESPN.  A mock draft is a draft that does not end up creating a league that you will play in.  Ultimately, it is a practice draft.  I suggest doing just so you can be familiar with the software, as you will have to make quick decisions when we do this for real.

2) Take a look around and read a little.  A lot of things happen and some of it goes unnoticed.  Read Fantasy websites and see what’s being talked about.  Basically, become familiar with what’s going on.  There are endless ways to do this, including the popular sites ESPN, CBS, FOX, and Yahoo!.

3) Become familiar with our rules and scoring system.  You can find our scoring system here, or by going to the setting tab when you’re logged in.  It helps to be familiar with how things will be scored when thinking about who you want to draft.

If you need to get a hold of Steve or I, please send us a message via facebook or reply by email.

Thanks,

Steve and Andrew

1. Move blog to blog.steventrevino.net. I will be blogging less often, but more personal.
2. Main index page will aggregate several things: Twitter status, Google Reader shared links, recent blog posts, recent forum posts(not likely, as I like it more private). And probably “About Me.”
3. Upgrade forums. It’s still functional, but it always goes on the list. Fixes a lot of the old problems like PM storage.
4. Upgrade blog. WordPress 2.7 is expected in about 2 weeks and I’d like to make the change. I also want to see if I can design it around a child theme. Because I will be making an index page from scratch, there will probably be yet another redesign. I’m thinking blue.
5. Find a domain hack. It will redirect to this page, but who wouldn’t like a simpler web address?

For those of you on Twitter, I’m looking for some more people to follow. You can follow me and find my updates here.

Update: The offer has expired. Send me thanks via comments to those who got their posters!

Amazon is offering a free poster from their partnership with Universal Music Enterprise. Your choice from: The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Nirvana, Bob Marley, Kiss, or Marvin Gaye.

If you don’t trust that ad, it is linked from this Amazon page. I’ve got The Who, now get yourself one. Ends Sunday, November 9th, 2008.